One million renters handed section 21 notices since 2019 – Shelter

Reply to the comment left by Ray Guselli at 18/04/2024 - 12:06
Actually it's about 91.5% who are not facing S21 or S8 notices. Shelter through up big numbers but not the context. It may even be higher if some of the tenants are joint tenancy holders. Note they merely said tenants - not tenancies face S notices

How can Shelter possibly think 1,000,000 of these S21 were for 'no fault' , some may be for landlords putting the rent up, some may be for landlord selling up BUT I would think at least 90% (lets be generous here) are for non payment of rent or anti-social behaviour. Shelter have NO statistics to back up their numbers

Reply to the comment left by Cider Drinker at 18/04/2024 - 10:18
The tory government have no interest in controlling the borders out of fear and the incoming labour government look set to welcome illegals with open arms. Neither party is interested in the welfare of landlords and for the most part, tenants !. The ironic thing is, all of the undesirables we have evicted over the last few years will have more than likely been snubbed out of the private sector for the foreseeable and now have now been chucked onto the ever growing council housing list. Turns out an exploding population is good for business.

Reply to the comment left by GlanACC at 18/04/2024 - 13:27
They don't need statistics when their target audience laps up the bones they thrown at them.

Dear Shelter (who don’t provide shelter to anyone)
How many Section 21 Notices have been issued as a direct result of the threat of the Renters (Reform) Bill?
No answer, eh?
Regards
Property OWNER (providing shelter to a number of families - for now)

They get a lot of their figures from a small survey of 2000 people who no doubt have contacted them so are not a true reflection.

It is hard to sympathise with a charity that exaggerates or is untruthful. It lessens their credibility with political parties and those that finance and subsidise their work.

If I read this correctly, the charity says, by way of their extrapolation, of the 4.6M PRS homes, landlords caused 830,000 tenants to move in one year. If their figure is extrapolated, it means 20% of all PRS tenancies last a year or less, which is clearly inaccurate.

Again, the charity does itself no credit in saying the proposed Renters Reform Bill is 'watered down into insignificance.' This is another exaggeration. There are only three main issues with the bill and they all make good sense: firstly, the issue of student letting that needs to run in alignment with term times and that all the relevant parties are in agreement with; secondly, the introduction of a minimum rental period for tenants to avoid them using PRS as short-term letting platform; and thirdly improving the Court process, which nobody can disagree with, is slow and cumbersome needs urgent reform.

Ask the average person in the street what shelter does, and they will say they provide 'shelter' for the homeless. How wrong can they be!

Reply to the comment left by NewYorkie at 18/04/2024 - 11:22We do have a choice, but due to life cycles of lending or tenants it can take a few years to allow a natural end of a tenancy or mortgage term before one can extract oneself from a property. In the mean time, I think we can have a little grumble 🙂
At the moment I personally have not been really effected by any legislation passed. Times move and we change what and how we do it. I will keep my portfolio running another 3-5 years unless something bad happens, then I will dump out at the end of any lending terms.

Reply to the comment left by Nikki Palmer at 18/04/2024 - 10:34
If Shelter started renting out property, they would be out of a job and may have to start a new one called ‘Investor Beware’.